Social Work 1022A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Omen, Living Wage, Crisis Management
29 Mar 2017
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Suffragette movement applied to late 19th and early 20thc campaigns run by women for the right to vote o. The term comes from the word suffrage (the right to vote) and the traditional suffix. Ette used to feminize terms: a suffragette was a women who advocated for the right to vote o. Some countries granted suffrage early on (new zealand) and others much later (switzerland) o. Full federal enfranchisement for women in canada came in 1918; most provinces either preceded the federal legislation or quickly followed suit. Quebec didn"t grant suffrage to women until 1940. Maternal feminists feminists who argue that because of a woman"s special roles as mother &homemaker, she has an obligation &a right to participate in the public sphere: brought women into public life &social work o. Early maternal feminists now tend to be viewed as conservative as they supported more traditional conceptions of the family in which women were expected to stay in the home.
